Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have entered on the road which can have no turning . . . Imperialism will perish before without fail and inevitably the day of the failure of the imperialism of Germany was forewritten from that time when she made her enemy in the greatest democracy in the world." (April...
...capital in men and ideals she invested in the war . . . A tremendous majority (in the College straw ballot) for a compromise between the Senator Lodge and Democratic reservations in order to facilitate the ratification alone can show that college men have appreciated the issue. It must not fail." (January...
...teacher" [TIME, Dec. 29], to point out that opposition to the Army method comes from those of us who accept the Harvard Committee's definition of general education's aims (i.e., "to think effectively, to communicate thought, to make relevant judgments, to discriminate among values"), and who fail to see how the mechanical parroting of sounds contributes to the achievement of these aims. . . . It is to the Army's credit that it saw its objectives clearly and went about accomplishing them in the most direct fashion. It remains to be proved, however, that the Army...
...same time claims that the fault lies not with her, but with an Indian which is charged with trying to ruin its rival and sabotage partition of the sub-continent. Foreign Minister Khan, unlike other representatives of accused nations wants to reach an agreement, not merely air the difficulties, fail his opponents with verbose charges, solemnly declare for peace...
...University of Texas. The alcoholic's craving for alcohol has a physiological or biochemical basis that is not generally understood; his reaction to a given quantity of alcohol is violently different from that of the normal individual: "As long as we deal with the average man we will fail to encounter an alcoholic addict because the average man doesn't become addicted." This physiological basis seems to be inherited: investigators report that alcoholism is 74 times as common a cause of psychoses among men of Irish descent as among those of Jewish descent...